Truffle oil

Truffle oil is a spice oil from vegetable oil that has been flavored with truffles or truffle aroma. It serves dropwise to flavor various dishes.

For traditional manufacturing vegetable oil is prepared from a neutral taste or mild olive oil with a sliced ​​Perigord or Alba truffle in a bottle and sealed for a few days and bright room stored hot, then cool and dark. Instead of a whole truffles as well as shells and other residues can be recycled.

Industrially produced truffle oil must not contain or truffles can be made with low-grade, low-flavor types. His taste gets it then mainly by added natural identical flavoring substances as the bis occurring in truffles (methylthio ) methane, which is produced industrially from LPG. In 2000, the aroma manufacturer Dragoco (now Symrise AG) filed a patent on a flavor of white truffles on the basis of 2,4,6- trithiaheptane. Also find use as a main component 2,4- Dithiapentan and 1- octen-3 -ol. These flavors are not made of truffles and also contain only one or a few of the many substances that are responsible for truffles for the typical taste. Such oils are based on the ingredient list by the mention of "Aroma ", " nature-identical flavoring", " truffle aroma " or the like. visible.

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• Vegetable oil
• Fungal product